What is The Growing Home?

The Growing Home and Learning Center is a certified farm and educational center located in Diamond Bar, CA (near LA). It all started in 2008, when our family decided to start a small vegetable garden in our backyard. After tasting how much better fresh, organic produce tasted and how much healthier it made us feel, we slowly began to expand. So we planted vegetables in the rest of the backyard. Then in sideyard. Then in the frontyard. Now we are one of the largest certified urban farms in East Los Angeles County.

The Growing Home now includes nearly 5000 sq ft of land planted with a variety of fruits, vegetables, herbs and flowers. We have over 40 fruits trees, ranging from the average (oranges, apricots, apples) to the exotic (bananas, passion fruit, guavas, figs, pomegranate). We grow thousands of pounds of vegetables each year, enough to feed ourselves and sell whats leftover through our Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program.

Currently, The Growing Home is not only growing food for its residents, but also is helping others grow their own food through a Organic Garden Installation business.   We also strive to provide a space for building community through sustainable education. Each month we hold events like our Bi-Monthly Potlucks and Lectures , classes (on topics ranging from gardening and composting to healthy cooking), and film screenings.

If you’re interested in what we do, we suggest you first subscribe to our Newsletter (look right) and become our friends on Facebook. You’ll get updates on what we’re up to and what events we’re having, and you’ll have an easy way to contact us.